By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
A DOVETON pensioner wants someone to lend him a security camera after an being regularly taunted by a late-night intruder for the past 18 months.
‘Philip’, who does not want to be identified, wrote to the Weekly desperate for a way to stop the incidents that have caused him constant sleepless nights.
The 77 year old, in cancer remission, says his door bell has been rung and windows knocked on from 2-5am during the nuisance campaign.
He’s sighted a young person running from his house but often by the time he rouses himself from bed, the mystery pest is gone.
“He’s playing funny business,” Philip said. “He knows I get up to see who it is, so he keeps doing this to me. I’m losing sleep and it’s not helping my health. I’m not as quick to get to the door.”
At his wits’ end, Philip wants to borrow a security camera to take footage of the intruder “so the police can have a talk to him and ask him why he is doing this to me?” “He needs a good kick up the bum but if I do this I’ll be charged.”
Senior Sergeant Paul Marshall of Endeavour Hills police said he could step up covert patrols in the area.
He advised Doveton residents to keep the police informed of late-night strife. “We’ll take any snippets of information. A lot of people think their pieces of information aren’t important but we can put those pieces together.”
The station had four active tasking units monitoring “a few kids causing trouble” in the Doveton area, he said.
“We get there as soon as we can. It’s very hard for us to actually see the kids doing something wrong. When we’re speaking to them, they’re not breaking the law.”
Any information on Doveton night-pranks can be emailed to endeavourhills-uni-5ehoic@police.vic.gov.au.
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